Should The World Condemn Israel?
Less than 24 hours, Israeli ground troops launched it’s offensive into Gaza, where Hamas, a Palestinian faction is firing rockets into the Jewish territory. Across the globe, rallies are held condemning Israel for the bloodshed, but is it proper to condemn the Jews for her actions? I’ve been following the event with interest and here are the arguments and counter-arguments that I have find noteworthy: Those against Hamas Those against Israel
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Make 2009 A Better Year
As we celebrate the new year with festivities, in another part of the world, they are observing it with air raids, bombs, fear, and uncertainty.
Blame it not on Israel for it’s continued air raid and ground assault, neither the Hamas for the rockets fired. This conflict had it’s root from the decisions made by one man.
A look at history will help us make better and conscious decision for 2009.
Both the Arabs and Jews look at Abraham as their father, and both are monotheist. But why are they at war with each other?
The problem goes beyond the establishment of the nation Israel on what the Palestinians claim as their land.
It goes back to the ancient times when God promised Abraham that through his seed, God will establish a great nation (Gen 15). The promise, from the Jewish perspective, becomes a reality through Isaac and Jacob. On the Arabs perspective, the promised became a reality thru Ishmael .
The Freedom To Blog
Update 1/04/09: Alleged fact finding account of the incident. Look for the entries of rge (courtesy of momblogger) Update: Fox News and Agence France picked up the story too While restrictions on blogs and bloggers are being imposed on other countries, it can not be said on the Philippines. Filipinos are blessed with democracy. There are 3 freedoms that I particularly cherish, the one to chose your own leader, the freedom to embrace a Faith and the liberty to spread it, and the freedom of expression. Thus, blogs, of any kind and niche, flourish in our part of the world. As a matter of illustration, a Cabinet Secretary and his Mayor son came under fire from public opinion because of the alleged mauling of a 56 year old man and 14 year old boy. This, perhaps, will not be possible, if the incident was not blogged by a relative who witnessed the incident. 
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Blog Hack & A Wedding
As you probably noticed, Sonnie’s Porch was in semi-hibernate mode for about 2 weeks, providing only short updates and picture sharing. Blame it to budget preparation and business planning, blogging & work, at times, don’t blend well. I hope with the long Christmas vacation, I’ll be providing regular updates with value adding content that everyone expected. Let me start by blogging about the wedding of a person dear to us. As I shared in my Plurk page, the wedding made me teary eyed for 2 reasons:
Finally, this blog is up and kicking again after 2 or 3 days in hiatus. This site was hacked and malicious scripts were injected to it’s root folders resulting to missing php’s. Thanks to Jez for his assistance.
